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Moreover, last year, Harvard was in the lead--had conceived the idea of a regiment. It was a model to be admired and imitated by the lesser academic bodies and hence constantly to be improved and augmented. Its very formation before all other similar organizations assured its continuance as leader. Student enthusiasm so willed...
...significance lies in the voluntary nature of the Harvard Regiment. That freedom alone was a potent reason for its success. The desire for an ostentatious but efficient body impelled each to his best effort, and the desire surely achieved the result...
What, on the other hand, now confronts the student body? The voluntary Regiment has ceased to exist. In its place stands the course in military science with forbiddingly academic aspect. I confess that I emphasize that point. All too keenly does the member of the Regiment recall some of the admittedly unpopular lectures required in last year's work of the Regiment. The appeal of active "soldiering" is gone. The passive absorption of theory in the lecture room is not to the taste of the majority. The Regiment as a body was more inspired by the ideals of immediate efficiency...
This superior training of many men in the technique of the service and the consequent keen competition for officers' positions would have drawn many more to a voluntary organization, like last year's Regiment than have appeared interested in the present scheme...
...case of need, I fully believe that the men with the practical training of Plattsburg and the Regiment would make officers infinitely superior, both inorganizing ability and power in leadership, to the manifestly serious but purely theoretical students of Military Science and Tactics 1. HOWARD B. SPRAGUE...